[R] Installing gregmisc under windows 2000

[Prof Brian Ripley]

gregmisc is a bundle, not a package.  Its description on CRAN is

gregmisc	Bundle of gtools, gdata, gmodels, gplots

so try one of those packages.


On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Robert W. Baer, Ph.D. wrote:

> I went through the following steps using RGUI menus to install gregmisc from
> CRAN.  It appears to install but at the end R does not seem to be able to
> find it.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thankjs,
> Rob
> ----------------------------
>> local({a <- CRAN.packages()
> + install.packages(select.list(a[,1],,TRUE), .libPaths()[1], available=a,
> dependencies=TRUE)})
> trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/PACKAGES'
> Content type `text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1' length 23113 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 22Kb
>
> trying URL
> `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.0/gregmisc_2.0.0.zip'
> Content type `application/zip' length 687958 bytes
> opened URL
> downloaded 671Kb
>
> bundle 'gregmisc' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ^^^^^^^

> Delete downloaded files (y/N)? y
>
> updating HTML package descriptions
>> library(gregmisc)
> Error in library(gregmisc) : There is no package called 'gregmisc'
                                            ^^^^^^^

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